Bottle-holder.



PATBNTED JUNE 4, 1907.

J. VAN HALL.

BOTTLE HOLDER. APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. s. 1906.

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so that the same may 551 'aws so that they may be open.

JULIUS VAN HALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJ'une 4, 1907.

Application am September 8,1906. Serial No. 333,850.

To all wharf! it ill/my concern:

Be it known that I, JULiUs VAN HALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottle holders or more particularly. to devices which are adapted to receive bottles and have the same locked within them so that the said bottle cannot be removed or stolen as will be herein after -more fully described in the following specification, set forth in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters are used to designate the same parts in the several figures:

Figure showing a bottle locked therein. front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan viewof the locking jaws. Fig. 4 is a sectional view through the lock. Fig. 5 is a sectional view through the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

The device is adapted to be applied to some part of the front of a house or secured to the door frame so that a bottle may be placed within the lower ring 10 and the upper part of the bottle embraced by the loc ing jaws 11 and 12. This is in case that the device is used for securing a milk bottle which practice has found that in large cities these bottles are often stolen between the time that they are delivered by the dealer, and taken into the house by the purchaser and for this reason the frame 13 is made angular with the screw holes 14 in the upright portion or in the base if found necessary be screwed to the door frame. The ring 10 is rigid but the locking jaws 11 and 1'. are pivoted at that they may be opened.

tained within a box 18 having which. admits a key 20 to the interior of the box to operate a cam 21 whose nose 22 engages a pin 23 on the bolt 17 to raise it and disengage it from the perforations in the The bolt is \eld normally downward by a spring 24. The rear ends of the jaws limit their outward 1 is a side elevation of the device: Fig. 2 is a.

hole, jaws pivotally mounted u the points 15 so- The rear ends l of these jaws are elongated as at 16 and are l wlthin the box bein perforated to receive a vertical bolt 17 con 1 tions ada a key hole 19 lclosed, a

movement at the front end so that the jaws are not swung open so widely that the bolt may drop behind the end sections so as to prevent their being closed.

It is obvious that various details of construction may be modified or slightly changed Within the scope of the claims without departing from the essential features of the invention as above described.

A bow-spring 25 bears against the rear end of each jaw so that the front ends are expanded reparatory to receiving the neck of the bott e. When the bottle is placed in the .device and the jaws inclosed around it the bolt 17 springs into position as the perforations of the jaws register.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a holder for bottles and similar articles the combination with a frame adapted to be permanently located against a Wall or door frame and having a stationary ring, of

ivoted jaws with erforated rear ends,. a olt with a lateral pm, a cam ada ted to engage the pin and lift the bolt an a housing or box inclosing the cam, bolt and ends of the aws.

.2. A holder of the character described, comprising a ring, a box provided with a keyon the box at points between their ends, t ose ends of the jaws disposed within the box being provided with perforations adapted to aline when the jaws are closed, a bolt mounted within the box and adapted to ass through the perforations in the jaws to' ock them in closed position, and means by which the bolt ma be withdrawn.

3. A holder of the character described, comprising a ring, a box, jaws pivotally mounted upon the their ends, those ends of the jaws disposed provided with perforated to aine when the jaws are olt mounted within the box and adapted to pass through the erforations of the jaws to lock them in clbsed position, means by which the bolt may be withdrawn, and means adapted to swing the jaws into opened'position when the bolt is withdrawn. 4. A holder of-'-the characterdescribed, comprising a ring, a box, jaws pivotally box at points between mounted upon the box between their ends, of the perforations to permit the j aws to be those ends of the jaws disposed Within the opened. v to box being provided with perforations adapt- In testimony whereof, I efiix my signature ed to aline When. the jaws are closed, a bolt in presence of two Witnesses.

5 mounted Within the box and adapted to I JULIUS VAN HALL.

ass through the perforations inthe jaws to Witnesses:

ock them in closed position, and means by BESSIE HARPER VAN HALL,

which the bolt may be Withdrawn from one W. S. TnomPsoNi 

